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Current trends in the use of residential child care in Scotland

open access: yes, 2006
The survey was planned to examine how local authority residential care units were currently being used and to provide data relating to current issues in the use of residential child care. These issues were identified by Scottish Institute for Residential
Hunter, L., Milligan, I.M., Kendrick, A.
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) in Tendon Regeneration: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) offers a promising solution by replicating the native tendon microenvironment and promoting regeneration. This review highlights advances in the decellularization methods, as well as their integration with emerging technologies and translational progress in tendon tissue engineering.
Kumaresan Sakthiabirami   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safer recruitment practice: audit of exisiting recruitment practices in residential child care

open access: yes, 2005
In the wake of a number of high profile cases of the abuse of children and young people in residential child care, there have been repeated calls for the improvement of recruitment and selection of residential child care staff.
Davidson, J.C., Kay, H., Kendrick, A.
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Fructose‐Based Single‐Chain Polymer Nanoparticles for GLUT1–Mediated Delivery: Impact of Polymer Design on Uptake and In Vivo Performance

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Single‐chain nanoparticles have been proposed as drug delivery carriers, but adding a tail can significantly enhance their performance. This was demonstrated using a tadpole‐like structure comprising a head prepared from a UV‐crosslinked fructose‐based glycopolymer capable of targeting GLUT receptors, combined with a PEG‐based tail. Compared with other
Hoang Yen Vo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond containment: driving change in residential care: a Queensland, Australia model of therapeutic residential care

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2013
Mercy Family Services is a Non-Government Organisation providing a range of out of home care services, including one 'therapeutic residential' and 12 traditional residential care programmes across South East Queensland, Australia. This paper will examine
Shelley Wall   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Residential child care and offending

open access: yes, 2009
This conference paper discusses residential child care and ...
Kendrick, Andrew
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

High School Dropout Rates of Japanese Youth in Residential Care: An Examination of Major Risk Factors

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2019
Youths in Japanese residential care institutions often face challenges with social adaptation and career trajectories. This study aimed to examine the risk factors that lead residential care youths in Japan to drop out of high school.
Eiji Ozawa, Yutaro Hirata
doaj   +1 more source

Children's rights : how to promote a rights based approach in residential child care

open access: yes, 2006
This paper promotes the use of children's rights in residential childcare. The 4 key principles of the UNCRC are used as tool to safeguard decision-making in Residential ChildCare.
Vrouwenfelder, Evelyn
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Bullying in adolescent residential care: The influence of the physical and social residential care environment

open access: yes, 2015
To date, no study examined possible contributions of environmental factors to bullying and victimization in adolescent residential care facilities.
Sekol, Ivana
core   +1 more source

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